Ranks and Insignia of The Ordnungspolizei - Ordnungspolizei Rank Insignia

Ordnungspolizei Rank Insignia

In addition to collar and shoulder insignia, Ordnungspolizei also wore the wreathed police eagle on the upper left sleeve. The collar patch and shoulderboards were backed, and the sleeve eagle (below the rank of Leutnant) embroidered, in truppenfarbe, a color-code which indicated the branch of police: green for Schutzpolizei (municipal police) and police general officers, orange for rural Gendarmerie, carmine-red for fire brigades, gold for maritime police and so on.

Orpo general rank	SS equivalent	Shoulder insignia	Collar insignia 1936-42	Collar insignia 1942-45
Chef der Deutschen Polizei	Reichsführer-SS
Generaloberst der Polizei	Oberstgruppenführer
General der Polizei	Obergruppenführer
Generalleutnant der Polizei	Gruppenführer
Generalmajor der Polizei	Brigadeführer

Note: Since most police generals, increasingly as time went on, were also SS generals, they typically wore an SS uniform except at police-specific functions.

Orpo officer rank	SS equivalent	Shoulder insignia	Collar insignia
Oberst der Polizei	Standartenführer
Oberstleutnant der Polizei	Obersturmbannführer
Major der Polizei	Sturmbannführer
Hauptmann der Polizei	Hauptsturmführer
Oberleutnant der Polizei	Obersturmführer
Leutnant der Polizei	Untersturmführer

Orpo enlisted rank	Translation	SS equivalent	Shoulder insignia	Collar insignia
Meister	Master	Sturmscharführer
Hauptwachtmeister	Chief watch master	Hauptscharführer
Revier-oberwachtmeister (Schupo) Bezirks-oberwachtmeister (Gendarmerie) Zugwachtmeister (Kasernierte Polizei)	Precinct senior watch master District senior watch master Platoon watch master	Oberscharführer
Oberwachtmeister	Senior watch master	Scharführer
Wachtmeister	Watch master	Unterscharführer
Rottmeister	Team master	Rottenführer
Unterwachtmeister	Junior watch master	Sturmmann
Anwärter	Candidate	Mann

SS

Branches	Allgemeine SS Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) Waffen-SS

Leadership	Reichsführer-SS SS and Police Leader SS personnel SS commands

Leaders	Julius Schreck Joseph Berchtold Erhard Heiden Heinrich Himmler Karl Hanke

Main departments	Office of the Reichsführer-SS Head Administrative Office Head Operational Office Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) Economics and Administration Office Office of Race and Settlement (RuSHA) Main Office for Ethnic Germans (VOMI) Office of the Reich Commissioner for Germanic Resettlement (RKFDV) Courts Office Personnel Office Education Office

Ideological institutions	Ahnenerbe Das Schwarze Korps SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz

Police and security services	Regular uniform police (Orpo) Criminal police (Kripo) Secret State police (Gestapo) State Security police (SiPo) SS Security Service (SD)

Führer protection	SS-Begleitkommando des Führers Begleitkommando-SS Reichssicherheitsdienst

Paramilitary units	Einsatzgruppen Ypatingasis būrys Lithuanian Security Police Rollkommando Hamann Arajs Kommando Ukrainian Auxiliary Police Ukrainian collaboration Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz Trawnikis

Waffen-SS divisions	Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) Leibstandarte (LSSAH) Totenkopf-Division Polizei-Division

Foreign SS units	Germanic-SS Germaansche SS in Nederland Germaansche SS in Vlaanderen Germanske SS Norge Schalburg Corps Britisches Freikorps Europäische Freiwillige S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A. Finnisches Freiwilligen-Bataillon

SS-controlled enterprises	Ostindustrie Deutsche Wirtschaftsbetriebe Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke DEST Allach porcelain Apollinaris Mattoni Sudetenquell

Ranks, uniforms and insignia	Uniforms and insignia of the SS Ranks and insignia of the Waffen-SS Ranks and insignia of the Orpo

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